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On Aug 11, 2014 7:54 PM, "Sean Conner" <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>
> It was thus said that the Great Jay Carlson once stated:
> > On Aug 11, 2014 1:48 PM, "Thiago L." <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 11/08/14 02:34 PM, Jay Carlson wrote:
> >
> > >> Why do people like MediaWiki disable coroutines, anyway?
> > >
> > > Because you can't interrupt running coroutines?
> > >
> > > coroutine.resume(coroutine.create(function() while true do end end)) --
> > good luck interrupting me
> >
> > OK, that's a good reason. (OTOH, if you were going to tear down the runtime
> > in response to an interrupt I'm not sure it matters.)
> >
> > You can navigate from a lua_State to its global state, but you can't
> > navigate from the global state to the current thread. I'm not certain what
> > "current thread" really means anyway.
>
> Um ... lua_pushthread()?
In a signal handler? All you have is the handle to the L you created.
Jay